JOSEPH B. FREDERICK

Brentley Joyce, 8, uses a penny press machine at the American Dream mall, Sunday, March 2, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
The US penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. But for one sector of souvenir sellers, it’s a living
President Donald Trump talks of big change in his second term of office. But he’s not forgetting small change.
 
A person poses for a photo in front of the brownstone where Carrie Bradshaw lived in “Sex and the City”, in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved an application for a metal gate for the front staircase of the Manhattan brownstone to keep away tourists who endlessly trespass and pose for pictures. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
No cupcakes, no cosmos: ‘Sex and the City’ brownstone in NYC will get a gate to deter tourists
The front staircase of the Manhattan brownstone where Carrie Bradshaw lived in “Sex and the City” is getting a metal gate to keep away tourists who endlessly trespass and pose for pictures.
 
John Jobbagy shows dry aged beef during an interview at J.T. Jobbagy Inc. in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
He’ll be the last meatpacker in the Meatpacking District. Here’s how NYC’s gritty ‘hood got chic
The last meatpackers in New York’s Meatpacking District have agreed to end their leases early and make way for development on their city-owned lot.
 
Rewind It 10 Celebrates Father’s Day with Buy 2, Get 1 Free Sale!
US, Europe clear way to $50B Ukraine loan in deal to tie up Russian assets until Moscow pays for war

US, Europe clear way to $50B Ukraine loan
 
In these still images from video, magnet fisher James Kane displays the part of the contents of a safe he pulled out of a pond, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, in the Queens borough of New York, Friday May 31, 2024. Kane, 40. and his girlfriend, Barbi Agostini, 39, estimate the safe contained $100,000 in waterlogged, damaged but exchangeable currency. The bills featured the holographic bars indicating that they were of recent vintage, but the safe bore no clues to a rightful owner. (James Kane and BarbI Agostini @LetsGetMagnetic via AP)
New York magnet fisher catches safe full of soggy $100 bills, he says
James Kane has used a magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but he says the stacks of $100 bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely.
 
Demonstrators lock arms on the UCLA campus, after nighttime clashes between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian groups, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Tension grows on UCLA campus as police order dispersal of large pro-Palestinian gathering
Tensions are growing on the UCLA campus as law enforcement officers order a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators to disperse.
 
Using a tactical vehicle, New York City police enter an upper floor of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building was taken over by protesters earlier Tuesday. Hundreds of police officers swept into Columbia University on Tuesday night to end a pro-Palestinian occupation of an administration building and sweep away a protest encampment, acting after the school’s president said there was no other way to ensure safety and restore order on campus.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall
Police have cleared 30 to 40 people from inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the administration building in New York earlier in the day. The scene unfolded shortly after 9 p.m.
 
An apartment is left exposed where a corner of the residential building collapsed in the Bronx borough of New York, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
No victims found in huge debris pile after corner of Bronx apartment building collapses
Firefighters say they haven’t found any victims of a partial building collapse in the Bronx. Firefighters spent hours Monday searching a huge mound of rubble after a corner of an apartment building collapsed, leaving apartments exposed like a stack of shelves.
 
FILE - A tour guide fans herself while working in Times Square as temperatures rise, July 27, 2023, in New York. Nearly 60% of the U.S. population, are under a heat advisory or flood warning or watch as the high temperatures spread and new areas are told to expect severe storms. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Extreme heat moves east where many will see their hottest days of the year
Nearly 200 million people in the United States, or 60% of the U.S. population, are under a heat advisory or flood warning or watch and have been since Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.